"Legitimacy of Meritocracy"

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  1. we now turn to an alternative understanding of our example,
  2. namely, modernization theory.
  3. According to borrow Ana, this theory assumes that with modernization,
  4. capitalism and economic development a screw up, the factors no
  5. longer determined educational and occupational success.
  6. This takes place through the carving investments in education as
  7. well as meritocratic values, which possibly diminish discrimination in education
  8. and the labor market.
  9. So education is seen as providing everyone equal opportunity in
  10. reaching the top.
  11. Essentially, this legitimizes inequality in condition that is, for example,
  12. descriptive socioeconomic factors of a person.
  13. Hence, in a supposed age of growing affluence, the upper
  14. classes will have to give up their privilege and give
  15. way to the working classes.